182549 - Google thinks that the search button was pressed when searching even if it isn't.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 156683

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim Vaughan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

There are different ways of entering search terms into Google.  One of them is
to press enter having input the required terms.  Another is to click the
'search' button.  These two ways generate a different URL in IE:

Search button clicked:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=testing&btnG=Google+Search

Return button pressed:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=testing

However, Google cannot differentiate between these two methods when using
Mozilla.  Pressing return always results in the search button result, and Google
tells me that "In most browsers you can just hit the return key instead of
clicking on the search button."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to http://www.google.com
2. Enter search terms.
3. Press Enter/return.

Actual Results:  
Google turns up this URL:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=testing&btnG=Google+Search

Expected Results:  
Google should have turned up this URL:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=testing

Reproducible with both Windows and Linux versions.

Comment 1

[Daniel Clemente]

Probably dupe of bug 156683

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156683 ***